Monthly Archives: July 2014

Leonardo’s Pocket Camera

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Small ‘libricini’ (pocket sized notebooks) recorded whatever image took Leonardo’s fancy. They were tied to his belt, and captured more detail than an ‘Instamatic.’ Notations of color, size, and even the weather was important to document, as it designated the … Continue reading →

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The Saddest Words in Art…

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Veronica Knox

 NOW LOST… These two devastating words have inspired most of my novels. I write about missing art and the lost lives of artists and their forgotten models who, over time, have become the anonymous heroes and heroines of art. While … Continue reading →

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Nothing Up Her Sleeve

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Stuff happens… The lower third of this painting by Leonardo is missing. Where did it go? Was it destroyed through accident or by malicious design? What was this girl holding in her hands? I premise it was a bouquet of … Continue reading →

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Cherry White

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Veronica Knox

I spy with my little eye something beginning with fire   Erased emotions quicken when ethics challenges the cold logic of a sentient computer, programmed to save lost art first, regardless of the consequences to those who created it. genre: … Continue reading →

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Erotic Million Dollar Leonardo Destroyed by an Hysterical Woman?

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Veronica Knox

One 17th century woman may have decided this painting was an image too far. The original version of ‘Leda and the Swan’ by Leonardo da Vinci was last seen in 1625 and believed to be destroyed on the grounds of … Continue reading →

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Twinter

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Veronica Knox

TWINTER = a story of winter, twins, science, and magic ‘Twinter- the first portal’ is a novel-length fantasy for middle-grade readers, age ten to eleven. Recommended for advanced readers. Twelve-year-old twins, Kit (a keen scientist) and Bash (a girl with … Continue reading →

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Birds and Bees

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Veronica Knox

 Genetics aside, hybrid creatures can inspire the multifaceted characters who inhabit paranormal fiction. Paranormal does not need to infer Gothic horror, but rather the magic of the imagination: time travel, fanciful species, dreams of living five-hundred years ago, indeed living … Continue reading →

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Loving Botticelli

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Veronica Knox

I love the concept of a painting interacting with a viewer. ‘The Portrait of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde aged while the man remained young. I have always wanted to step into a narrative painting and look around behind the … Continue reading →

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A Sign of the Times?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Artists were not permitted to sign their paintings in the fifteenth century. Even the subjects’ identities were disguised under a layer of flattering (or covertly unflattering) iconography. Anagrams, puns, links to family crests, and professed virtues linger under ambiguous titles … Continue reading →

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Seeing Double

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Veronica Knox

Leonardo painted two ‘Madonna of the Rocks,’ so why not two Mona Lisas? Provenance is sketchy, but amongst the many copies of the ‘Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo’s students and admirers, one stands out as a possible second ‘Lisa.’ Spectro cameras … Continue reading →

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